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Today is All Souls Day. Here’s the Catholic news you need to know.
The Catholic Church in Ukraine will face extermination if the Russian invasion is successful, leading Ukrainian Catholic bishops said this week.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255882/catholic-church-in-ukraine-facing-extermination-bishops-say
Pope Francis has called for a “paradigm shift” in Catholic theology that takes widespread engagement with contemporary science, culture, and people’s lived experience as an essential starting point.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255887/pope-francis-calls-for-paradigm-shift-in-theology-for-world-of-today
The Archdiocese of New Orleans has announced the “difficult and painful decision” to consolidate 11 parish communities, permanently close seven churches, and consolidate three territories in the coming months to ensure sustainability and vitality.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255883/new-orleans-parish-closures-mergers-consolidation
Leopoldo González González, archbishop of Acapulco, Mexico, expressed his closeness to those affected by Hurricane Otis in Mexico and called on the faithful to help the victims, noting that each person is “God’s provident hand” in working together with those most in need in the face of the emergency that began on October 25 when the hurricane made landfall.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255880/archbishop-of-acapulco-we-re-provident-hands-of-god-for-those-affected-by-hurricane-otis
Today, the Church marks All Souls Day. Today and throughout the month of November, the Church makes a special effort to remember, honor and pray for the dead, especially those in purgatory. Purgatory is a place where the souls go who die in friendship with God but are still imperfectly purified, and the Church teaches that souls in Purgatory rely on the prayers of souls still on Earth to relieve some of their temporal suffering and speed their journey to Heaven. There are many different cultural traditions around this period, but one of the most consistently honored is the practice of visiting cemeteries.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/all-souls-day-41